Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-19 | Page 2 | British Sweep Seas in Search of German Raider

BRITISH SWEEP SEAS IN SEARCH OF GERMAN RAIDER NKVY VOKK, Jan. 1. With the pordhiiity th;it the German sea raider which sank or cfiptured from fifteen to a Hcore of allied rhips is still continuing her depredation?, steamship owners and marine n nd t-r writ ers were in a state of nervous tension today. Tin; losses in hi pH ui c a ryot's thus tar represent from 1 i.Oniu'H )( to f'iini i.OOiJ. A cordon of liritish cruisers, reported to number fifteen, i believed to be sweeping the southern seas in search of the raider, which, according to one report, re-port, may lie the auxiliary cruiser Vineta; aei-ording to another the cruiser Moewe, the same sea rover which played havoc with allied shipping about a vear ago. Steamship circles were especially concerned con-cerned today over a wireless warning that the Gorman raider was working northward to more frequented lanes of steamship t rax el. The possibility that tho raider mav have armed and manned one or more of her prizes and dispatched them also on commerce-preying missions mis-sions was another source of anxiety, (hie report was that the British steamer St. Theodore was thus transformed. News of the fate of this vessel and of the Yarrowdale, reported to have on board some of the crews of other effptured vessels, was still lacking today. to-day. The Swedish steamships Consul Olsson .and Consul Confitzon. from Galveston, Tex., November 11 and IS, for Havre, reported yesterday as possible victims of a German raider, ha ve arrived at their destination. Word of their arrival ar-rival at Havre was received today by M. Weld & Co., shippers of the cargoes car-goes of cotion on board the two ships. The people of Kingston, Jamaica, are in constant fear of a raid by a German Ger-man ship, according to stories told by passengers on the liner Almirante, whi' h arrived here today from the West Indies. Xo street lights burn at night in Kingston, the arrivals said, and there is extreme activity in the harbor, where searchlights nightly play from the fortifications, for-tifications, while fleets of small boats patrol the harbor entrance.